Mel Gibson (Mel Colmcille Gerard Gibson) Quotes
You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that's what I've been through.
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
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The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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Socialism requires that government becomes your god.
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We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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I am doing characters that have so many layers. And I am very lucky that I show a lot of variety.
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Good material is good material.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
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I don't believe that employers should have access to an employee's private passwords, including Facebook.
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I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.
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I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me – but the process of actually crafting it is essential.
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I pluck with my fingernails. If I break a nail, I can't cancel a concert. So I can make a nail out of a ping-pong ball.
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I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for fear of E. coli. I didn't allow them to play with rope, string, balloons - anything that might strangle them. They had to bite grapes in half, avoid lollipops, eat only when I could watch them.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own Government to save the environment.
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You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that's what I've been through.
